49 AMERICANS, THE - We Know Nonsense

"Long-awaited reissue of the second full-length album from 1982 by late 1970s/early 1980s UK DIY super-group The 49 Americans. The main instigator behind The 49 Americans was Andrew "Giblet" Brenner, who assembled a loose, disparate group of musical/non-musical practitioners as an experiment in equality and democracy. This democracy included David Toop, Steve Beresford, Max Eastley, Lol Coxhill and Peter Cusack (coming out of the anything goes improv scene), Nag And Bendle of The Door And The Window, Viv Albertine of the Slits, Vivien Goldman, Giblet's mum, and many more. The CD version comes as a lovingly-assembled career-spanning compilation. It features the complete original We Know Nonsense album as well as 23 (!) bonus tracks taken from The 49 Americans' first album E Pluribus Unum (1980) and their 7" The 14-Track Single (1979). A 20-page booklet contains "The Incompleteable Story of The 49 Americans." The Wire listed We Know Nonsense in their legendary list of "100 Records That S